Comment 8 for bug 1573307

Guys, this is a serious bug. (In Debian it would be called "important").

Could you please just upgrade to wget 1.18, or at least backport

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=7099f4899880eaefc2c40a3dc7693ab4174a819b

so that wget stops being unusable for ordinary usage?